Hi all,
On behalf of the Jenkins Events Team, I would like to invite you to the “Jenkins & Java 10 Online Hackathon” which we are going to have from June 18th to 22nd.
Jenkins project currently requires Java 8 to run reliably. There are some known compatibility issues with higher Java versions. During the Jenkins World 2017 Hackathon, Mark Waite and Baptiste Mathus spent some time exploring Java 9 compatibility in Jenkins. We are currently tracking compatibility issues in the
JENKINS-40689 EPIC, but there are likely many unknown issues in Jenkins core, plugins and in libraries we use in the project.
It has been almost a year since that effort. Java 9 has recently been end-of-lifed, Java 10 in GA, and Java 11 is in early beta. We would like to continue the effort and work on Java 10+ support. So, we are going to have an online hackathon on June 18th-22th in order to collaborate on finding and fixing compatibility issues, share experience and have some fun. Everybody is welcome to join, independently of their Jenkins experience and amount of time they have available.
If you are interested in participating in the hackathon, please sign-up in
this form.
Currently the event is in the planning stage. We will be organizing some sync-up and knowledge transfer sessions during the event, and we also want to have some special swag for participants. Stay tuned, we are going to provide more details about the logistics in a blogpost to be published soon. If you have any questions, please reply to this thread.
Best regards,
Oleg Nenashev